Wole Soyinka Quotes
I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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What makes America special is that people come here, assimilate and become American with all of the rights and responsibilities citizenship bestows.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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Capitalism is war; socialism is peace.
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Gov. Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature's strong commitment to increase access to Advanced Placement courses continues to pay off.
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Publication is to thinking as childbirth is to the first kiss.
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Every single movie I go up for I'm just checking the phone to see if the e-mail's come in, to see if I got the part yet, which makes me more anxious.
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When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who Vesta was and figure out what was going wrong. I knew it wasn't my singing ability. So it had to be that I was expendable because I didn't have the right look.
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By the mid-1990s, nearly everything in North Korea was worn out, broken, malfunctioning. The country had seen better days.
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.
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Civilization consists in giving something an unfitting name, then dream about the result. And indeed the false name and the real dream create a new reality. The object really becomes another, because we turned it into another one. We manufacture realities.
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This is the only thing I know.
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It's easy to put on a Deep Purple record and say, 'That sounds great.' But why? Part of it is individual practice, but by playing together, a talent of meshing happens.
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The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.
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The end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered.
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People need love. It’s the most powerful emotion in the world.
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I rarely use mythology for its own sake because, as a theatre person, the mythological figures are in fact humanity to the ninth degree and Yoruba mythology in particular has fascination of being one of the most humanised mythologies in the world.
